Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 62267

Social Security Benefits and Welfare Tax Credits: Uprating

Tabled: 24 June 2025

Answered: 30 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Claire Hanna

Social Democratic & Labour Party — Belfast South and Mid Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to uprate (a) inflation-linked benefits and (b) tax credits for the 2026–27 financial year in line with the consumer prices index rate of inflation for September.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

The Social Security Administration Act 1992 requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to review State pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general level of prices or earnings. Where th...

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